Great Soca Gorge walk

After lunch it was not raining and not forecast to until later so we headed off to hike some of the Soca Trail at the Great Soca Gorge (which is right next to the campsite). These are all just photos of the water as it is so gorgeous!! The rocks were cool that it flowed through and it was really nice. The whole trail is 24km long one way so we obviously didn’t do the whole thing, but I really enjoyed the part we did (though it was a more difficult trail in part because it was wet so all the tree roots and rocks were slippery!). On the way back to camp I did stop and put my feet in the water and omg it was FREEZING! My feet hurt from the cold by the time I stepped in and took this one photo! Not long at all!! There was a guy taking fancy photos standing in the water for so long and I was like how is he doing that?!? My feet hurt from the seconds they were in there!! When he got out his feet and legs are red from the cold and I bet they hurt! Then back to back to enjoy the mountain views and the rain!

All in all today was a great day, especially since the forecast said thunderstorms all day. We got lucky with the rain that we were mostly able to avoid it (my goal for the day was to not have my shoes get soaked as last time they did it took days and a morning where we could leave them in the sun for a few hours for them to dry! It is just too humid for things to dry out well and too warm to run the heater or something to dry them out. So I didn’t want them to be soaked as we have some big hikes coming up and hiking in wet shoes is a no go. We do have other hiking sandals that were wore when our good shoes got soaked, but because get trails are not usually great I want my good shoes for the hard hikes. And goal accomplished!)Read more